Re: Installing communicator.
Simmons-Davis wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My question now is: how do I get Communicator on my sytem in order to run
> "apt-get install communicator"? Currently when I try to run it it sends back
> the response:
>
> "Package communicator has no available version, but exits in the database.
> This typically means the package was mentioned in a dependency and never
> uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of
> sources.list
> E: Package communicator has no istallation candidate"
>
> I have the Debian official 6 cd set and have all of them included in dselect
> (or apt or whatever the base is) from the istallation of Debian when it
> asked for cds to scan. I'm pretty sure that communicator is not included on
> any of those cds and so am thinking that I have to download it first via ftp
> from the Debian ftp archives. Which package would I actually download from
> there (for "communicator") and then how do I get it included in the
> "sources.list".
Add these after the CD entries as it will look at the CD first.
# standard - install generated
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib
deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main
contrib non-free
# security
deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free
Eric :-)
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